Louisiana Students Look for Solutions to the Oil Spill
Students at Hurst Middle School usually study science by rebuilding and preserving wetlands near their homes. Now they are searching for solutions to the Deep Horizon Oil Spill off the Louisiana coast line. Their science teacher, Barry Guillot has been guiding them to use the scientific method to find their own solutions to save our precious wetlands.

Friday, May 14, 2010

"More than 5,000 barrels per day of crude oil have been leaking from the wellhead and broken riser, bubbling up to the surface and flattening out into a widening slickof oil. The growing, fast-moving, rainbow-colored smear is large enough to be visible from outer space, covering more than 3,500 square miles, and spreading with the wind and currents towards the Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida coastlines."